com.sun.dtv.media.dripfeed
Interface DripFeedControl

All Superinterfaces:

Control

public interface DripFeedControl

extends Control

This Control allows to feed in progressively parts of a clip into a Player.

In the following example the frames that have to be displayed by the Player are stored individually in byte arrays.

 ...
 // Create a new MediaLocator and instantiate a new Player object
 MediaLocator dripLocator = new MediaLocator("dripfeed://");
 player = Manager.createPlayer(dripLocator);

 // retrieve a DripFeedControl from the Player
 dripControl = (DripFeedControl)player.getControl("com.sun.dtv.media.dripfeed.DripFeedControl");

 // get the OutputStream from the DripFeedControl
 OutputStream writeToPlayer = dripControl.getOutputStream();
 BufferedOutputStream bufStream = new BufferedOutputStream(writeToPlayer, maxFrameSize);
 bufStream.write(frame);
 

Method Summary

OutputStream

getOutputStream() Retrieves an OutputStream from the Control that can be used to write still pictures data to the Player from which the Control is retrieved.

Methods inherited from interface javax.media.Control

getControlComponent

Method Detail

getOutputStream

public OutputStream getOutputStream()
                             throws IOException

Retrieves an OutputStream from the Control that can be used to write still pictures data to the Player from which the Control is retrieved.

Returns:

output stream that can be used by the application to write to the JMF Player

Throws:

IOException - in case the Player can not handle the data written to the OutputStream